Provisioning Connection Information for Display on Cables Used to Couple Devices

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the generated connectivity information comprises at least one of first identifying information for a first location of the first device that the first cable connector is coupled to and second identifying information for a second location of the second device that the second cable connector is coupled to.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the first location of the first device specifies a first port of the first device that the first cable connector is coupled to and the second location of the second device specifies a second port of the second device that the second cable connector is coupled to.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the first location of the first device specifies at least one of a building and a rack in which the first device is located and the second location of the second device specifies at least one of a building and a rack in which the second device is located.

5. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the first portion of the generated connectivity information comprises both the first identifying information and the second identifying information for display on the first cable display proximate the first cable connector at the first end of the cable.

6. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the first and second portions of the generated connectivity information each comprise both the first identifying information and the second identifying information for display on both the first cable display proximate the first cable connector at the first end of the cable and the second cable display proximate the second cable connector at the second end of the cable.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the integrated sideband interface of the cable comprises at least one of an inter-integrated circuit interface and a universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter interface.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the one or more control lines comprise at least one of a serial clock line and a serial data line coupling the first device to the first cable connector of the cable.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the integrated sideband interface of the cable comprises at least one of an inter-integrated circuit interface and a universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter interface, and wherein the one or more control lines comprise at least one of a serial clock line and a serial data line coupling the first device to the first cable connector of the cable.

12. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device causes the at least one processing device to perform the method of claim 10.

14. The cable of claim 13 wherein at least one of the first and second cable displays comprises a flexible display that is wrapped around a portion of the cable wiring.

15. The cable of claim 13 wherein the cable wiring comprises a direct attach copper cable wiring.

16. The cable of claim 13 wherein the cable wiring comprises fan-out cable wiring, and wherein the second end of the cable wiring comprises a plurality of second ends each coupled to an instance of the second cable connector.

17. The cable of claim 13 wherein the integrated sideband interface comprises an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) interface.

18. The cable of claim 17 wherein the one or more control lines comprise a serial clock line and a serial data line coupled to the first cable connector, and wherein the I2C interface of the integrated sideband interface is coupled to the serial clock line and the serial data line.

19. The cable of claim 13 wherein the integrated sideband interface comprises a universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter interface.

20. The cable of claim 19 wherein the one or more control lines comprise one or more transmit and receive data lines coupled to a micro-controller of the first cable connector, the micro-controller of the first cable connector being coupled to a serial clock line and a serial data line of the first cable connector, and wherein the universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter interface of the integrated sideband interface is coupled to the micro-controller of the first cable connector via the one or more transmit and receive data lines.